Buying Time, Joe Haldeman
Buying Time, Joe Haldeman
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Buying Time

Author: Joe Haldeman

Narrator: Eric Vale

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 03/21/2017


Synopsis

From Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Joe Haldeman, the bestselling author of "The Forever War" and "Forever Peace", comes a thrilling sci-fi story that examines a world where time truly is money, and what happens when they both run out.

More even than space travel, the Stileman Process has altered twenty-first century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensures that every ten years or so, the ailing aging body can be restored to youthful vigour and health. There's a catch, of course: the cost. Every ten years or so you have to come up with £1,000,000 minimum to repeat the procedure or die.

For Dallas Barr, one of the oldest men on earth, it's that time again. While casting around desperately for his next essential £1,000,000, he meets Maria, a woman from - literally - a previous life, and makes two major discoveries.

#1: Not all Stileman 'immortals' were born - or created - the same.

#2: Someone is trying to kill them. All of them.

About Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman is an American author of award-winning science fiction and nonfiction works and a part-time professor at MIT. He earned a BS in physics and astronomy, as well as an MFA in writing. Drafted into the military, he served in Vietnam as a combat engineer in 1968 and 1969, was severely wounded, and earned a Purple Heart. His experience in war and in returning to civilian life are themes he uses in much of his writing. He is the author of numerous novels and several series, including the Forever War series. His science fiction has earned many awards, including five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, a Locus Award, three Rhysling Awards, a World Fantasy Award, and a James Tiptree Jr. Award. Haldeman was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2009, received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement in 2010, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on February 13, 2020

A fast paced thriller set in the near future full of all kinds of interesting outgrowths from our current society. There's an island off Florida that's an anarchist haven & he gives credible reasons why it exists. Surveillance is pervasive, trips to NEO, Luna, Mars, & the asteroids are expensive, ye......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 12, 2021

This is a well-written and fast-paced book that takes an old sf trope, immortality and its many consequences on society, and presents it in a near-future suspense/tech-thriller framing. The chapters alternate between two first-person narrators that are very well drawn characters, and the settings fr......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 20, 2012

I wanted to like this book, I've read a few Haldeman short stories and really enjoyed them. The story was uninteresting, the characters not well defined or likeable. It improved in the middle and I was just starting to get into it when out of the blue it ended. No real resolution or explanation of a......more

Goodreads review by Frank on April 08, 2015

This is one of the few books that I have enjoyed reading again. It is so full of interesting ideas and an action paced plot.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 09, 2018

Even allowing for its age (28 years), this is a not-bad adventure perched atop a decent SF "what if" - except for the ending. The "what if" is thoughtful: how would a near-immortality process have to work so that the Earth didn't fill up in a couple of generations? The adventure is that there's a......more